Re: [GOAL] Mistaken statements on Gold OA at Publications

2016-06-29 Thread Heather Morrison
evious versions should be retained. Perhaps Publications could add a commenting function? best, Heather Morrison On 2016-06-29, at 3:43 PM, MIGUEL ERNESTO NAVAS FERNANDEZ wrote: > Dear all, > > Perhaps you have read this article: > Open Access, Innovation, and Research Infrastructur

[GOAL] off list Re: Publishing curated emails from GOAL

2016-06-16 Thread Heather Morrison
where people might prefer to see the results privately before deciding.It is possible that there is a subset of GOAL list members who would be interested in the experiment, but if so please leave my e-mails out. good luck! Heather Morrison > On Jun 16, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Josh Nichol

[GOAL] Platform cooperativism: alternative to explore for scholarly social sharing?

2016-05-25 Thread Heather Morrison
://www.shareable.net/blog/how-platform-coops-can-beat-death-stars-like-uber-to-create-a-real-sharing-economy I am not an expert, just found this interesting and relevant. best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http

Re: [GOAL] CC-BY with copyright transfer: author nominal copyright (typo correction)

2016-05-20 Thread Heather Morrison
ice one must examine journal/author contracts, not just visible indications, because even if an article is licensed CC-BY and indicates the author as copyright holder, it may actually be the publisher who owns all the rights under copyright. bes

[GOAL] CC-BY with copyright transfer

2016-05-20 Thread Heather Morrison
t). To assess the extent of this practice one must examine journal/author contracts, not just visible indications, because even if an author is licensed CC-BY and indicates the author as copyright holder, it may actually be the publisher who owns all the rights under copyright.

Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

2016-05-20 Thread Heather Morrison
at play here, I wonder, and if so what is the remedy? best, Heather Morrison Original message From: Éric Archambault Date: 05-20-2016 7:20 AM (GMT-05:00) To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" Subject: Re: [GOAL] Prophylactic Against Elsevier Predation

[GOAL] Ownership and future of "Open access" services

2016-05-18 Thread Heather Morrison
-profits). best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Policy to make sure open access works stay open access (was SSRN sellout to Elsevier)

2016-05-17 Thread Heather Morrison
ccess into the future. Thoughts? -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ hea

[GOAL] Elsevier is now the world's largest open access publisher (by number of journals)

2016-05-12 Thread Heather Morrison
APCs. For more detail and a link to a draft article on the topic, see: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2016/05/13/elsevier-now-the-worlds-largest-open-access-publisher/ best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information St

[GOAL] Commercial publisher sponsorship model for free OA for authors and readers alike

2016-05-09 Thread Heather Morrison
nant-3e-editeur-en-importance-sur-le-directory-of-open-access-journals-doaj/ best, Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa Desmarais 111-02 613-562-5800 ext. 7634 Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Ope

[GOAL] Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: possibilité de financement de doctorat

2016-04-16 Thread Heather Morrison
7;humanité elle-même. Grâce à une généreuse Subvention Savoir du CRSH (2016-2021), SSC a des fonds pour un(e) étudiant(e) de doctorat en ce champ. Je (Heather Morrison) suis la chercheuse principale, et une professeure adjointe à l'École des Sciences de l'Information de l'Univ

[GOAL] March 31 2016 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

2016-04-12 Thread Heather Morrison
immediate free access, and journals with all content open access. -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Commons

[GOAL] Open access copyright and licensing basics for OA publishers

2016-03-04 Thread Heather Morrison
that I will need to set this aside for review over the summer. best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: Status of OUP/ESA copyrights on PDF files of journal articles that were never copyrighted

2016-01-10 Thread Heather Morrison
____ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uot

[GOAL] Is there one place to look for high-level overview of state of OA?

2016-01-06 Thread Heather Morrison
/collectionKey/GJIKUEHR best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ heather.

[GOAL] Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum

2016-01-05 Thread Heather Morrison
Elizabeth Gibney’s article in Nature with this title may be of interest to list readers: http://www.nature.com/news/open-journals-that-piggyback-on-arxiv-gather-momentum-1.19102?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / Scho

[GOAL] Re: Quo vadere?

2016-01-05 Thread Heather Morrison
One thing I like about this kind of approach is it seems so well suited to education about OA archives. If researchers would prefer not to wait they could try checking the author's IR - seems like a line to this effect would not be hard to add to a "request in progress" message - just my two bit

[GOAL] December 2015 Dramatic Growth of Open Access

2015-12-31 Thread Heather Morrison
2016: keep up the good work! Happy New Year! -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowl

[GOAL] Re: The open access movement slips into closed mode

2015-12-31 Thread Heather Morrison
rée Université de Montréal Le mercredi 30 décembre 2015 à 17:07 +, Heather Morrison a écrit : Thank you for raising the issue of secrecy in approach. It strikes me that this is an appropriate critical question for the open access movement. Some thoughts follow. I was not invited to the

[GOAL] Re: The open access movement slips into closed mode

2015-12-31 Thread Heather Morrison
A movement is not the same as an organisation. Large movements that cross national boundaries and/or sectors of necessity involve a great many different groups and individuals. The environmental movement of the past few decades is a good case study. There is a common overall goal, but progress i

[GOAL] Re: The open access movement slips into closed mode

2015-12-30 Thread Heather Morrison
for the OA movement to reconsider our commitment to open in the senses of transparency and inclusion. Happy holidays! Heather Morrison On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:19 AM, "Richard Poynder" mailto:richard.poyn...@cantab.net>> wrote: The 12th Berlin Conference was held in Germany on

[GOAL] OA APC study 2015: the mythical OA APC, preliminary central tendencies, and variations.

2015-12-03 Thread Heather Morrison
Full data and documentation is available in the OA APC dataverse: http://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dvn/dv/oaapc All of the posts are open for commenting. -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa De

[GOAL] Re: New mandate from main Dutch funder NWO

2015-11-26 Thread Heather Morrison
has the potential to attract more / better researchers and students and support for the important work of universities and research funding agencies. Just a thought! Heather Morrison On 2015-11-26, at 7:31 AM, "Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)" mailto:j.bos...@uu.nl>> wrote: Dear all, This

[GOAL] Congratulations to BASE: over 80 million documents and awesome search interface!

2015-11-20 Thread Heather Morrison
to BASE!! -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ heather.morri...@uotta

[GOAL] EU considering link taxing and blocking

2015-11-17 Thread Heather Morrison
Open Access depends on linking - and is one of the best exemplars of why links should not be blocked. Please sign. https://savethelink.org/yourvoice?src=158734 best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http

[GOAL] Re: Inside Higher Ed: All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua resign over Elsevier

2015-11-13 Thread Heather Morrison
May I suggest that authors of articles in Lingua should make full use of their self-archiving rights to make this material freely available through their OA archive. Does anyone know the history of author contracts for this journal? What rights (if any) were retained by the society, what rights

[GOAL] 2015 open access article processing charges: preliminary dataset

2015-11-12 Thread Heather Morrison
as we have already noted a number of limitations to this study there. As we continue with data gathering and analysis we'll post what we find as we go along. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies Uni

[GOAL] Elsevier OA license page: CC-BY-NC-ND includes text and data mining and reuse rights

2015-11-12 Thread Heather Morrison
act is different from the attribution for the downstream work per se. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa Desmarais 111-02 613-562-5800 ext. 7634 Sustaining the Knowledge Commons

[GOAL] Sustaining the Knowledge Commons

2015-11-09 Thread Heather Morrison
publicly traded corporations as they are required to publish this information. Not all commercial publishers are publicly traded companies. If anyone knows of anyone doing research in this area, please post to the list as there does seem to be interest in the topic. -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Pr

[GOAL] Changes in top ten DOAJ publishers 2014 to 2015

2015-10-22 Thread Heather Morrison
- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa Desmarais 111-02 613-562-5800 ext. 7634 Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Open Access Scholarship http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ http://www.sis.uottawa.c

[GOAL] Freeing up older works a publisher has locked up? Ask for the contract

2015-10-18 Thread Heather Morrison
igure out what it really means. If the publisher can't provide a copy of the contract, that's important, please share this information as well. best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: Questions about the OA offered by Oxford University Press

2015-10-12 Thread Heather Morrison
months after first online publication in the journal." from: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/en/access-purchase/rights-and-permissions/self-archiving-policyb.html best, Heather Morrison On 2015-10-12, at 8:04 AM, Walker,Thomas J wrote: > Some background > > In the early years

[GOAL] Re: Beall's list: crowdsource scholarly critique?

2015-10-06 Thread Heather Morrison
trust are involved with. A question about submitting to such a journal is likely to be well received and may yield additional help about suitability of one's work and what a scholar can do to increase chances of acceptance. best, Heather Morrison On Oct 6, 2015, at 2:04 AM, &qu

[GOAL] Re: Beall's list: crowdsource scholarly critique?

2015-10-05 Thread Heather Morrison
et involved, if you or your organization is interested. Cheers, Don -Original Message- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org<mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org> [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org<mailto:boun...@eprints.org>] On Behalf Of Heather Morrison Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 11:24 AM

[GOAL] Beall's list: crowdsource scholarly critique?

2015-10-04 Thread Heather Morrison
Scholarly critique, including critique of OA practices, is necessary to advance our knowledge. Beall has done some good work in exposing poor practices. His own work could benefit from the same critical lens. just a thought. Heather Morrison ___ GO

[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning - Assessing Publishers and Journals Scholarly Practices - Reloaded

2015-10-03 Thread Heather Morrison
hi Eric, It is good to see a discussion of this topic. Some preliminary thoughts: The journal-level peer review process involved in the SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals is a type of model I suggest others look at. The primary questions have nothing to do with metrics, but rather are qualitative,

[GOAL] Re: Need for a new beginning

2015-10-03 Thread Heather Morrison
. This principle applies just as much to existing and emerging OA initiatives. When citing an article one should first cite the first author. Beall was correct to critique Eric for not mentioning the first author. The accusation of racism was not helpful. my two bits, Heather Morrison On Oct 3

[GOAL] Free to free plus fee: SSRN

2015-09-30 Thread Heather Morrison
o charge for downloading these research papers." From: http://www.ssrn.com/en/index.cfm/ssrn-faq/#elec_lib_charge best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorri

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

2015-09-09 Thread Heather Morrison
necessity includes commitment to quality). Just my two bits, Heather Morrison On Sep 9, 2015, at 6:05 AM, "Richard Poynder" mailto:richard.poyn...@cantab.net>> wrote: What many now refer to as predatory publishing first came to my attention 7 years ago, when I interviewed a publi

[GOAL] PLOS Computational Biology - Topic pages & wikipedia experiment - update?

2015-09-03 Thread Heather Morrison
, and any issues that may have been uncovered or lessons learned through this experiment. Any update or correction of my admittedly limited information on this topic would be appreciated. -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Info

[GOAL] A scholar's first published works are often derivatives of earlier works, or why restricting derivative rights is in the best interests of OA

2015-08-19 Thread Heather Morrison
lobal sharing of the knowledge of humankind) needs open access. The commons also needs scholars who are able to succeed, a challenging enough task in today's tough job market for new academics. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'informat

[GOAL] Re: libre vs open - general language issues

2015-08-17 Thread Heather Morrison
debates we should have been having over the years have not been had in the early years due to a need to fight for OA per se. My sense is that it is now timely to have these broader discussions. best, Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'informati

[GOAL] Re: libre vs open - general language issues

2015-08-14 Thread Heather Morrison
historical data: https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/historical-apc-data-from-before-the-april-upgrade/ 2014 survey: http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/3/1/1 Partial 2015 results and analysis from: sustainingknowledgecommons.org<http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org> best, Heathe

[GOAL] Reed Elsevier 2014 annual report: negative growth and changing business strategy

2015-07-03 Thread Heather Morrison
: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2014/03/elsevier-stm-publishing-profits-rise-to.html) Changing business strategy: "we are now primarily focused on driving the transition from electronic reference to electronic decision tools" (p. 5, 2014 progress) best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison

[GOAL] Re: Dramatic Growth of Open Access

2015-07-01 Thread Heather Morrison
would like to discuss further please use the comments on IJPE. I doubt that discussion of methodological details is of broad interest to list members. best, Heather Morrison > On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:45 PM, "Éric Archambault" > wrote: > > Hi Heather > > A lot of

[GOAL] Dramatic Growth of Open Access

2015-07-01 Thread Heather Morrison
over 75 million documents. Due to a clean-up project, DOAJ journal numbers decreased slightly this quarter. The number of journals and articles searchable at the article level continues to grow. best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL

[GOAL] Re: One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

2015-06-02 Thread Heather Morrison
" wrote: > > > Heather Morrison wrote: >> Challenge: My research blog and data verses are both fully open with >> no CC license at all. They are All Rights Reserved, and yet posted >> on the web, in the case of the dataverse deliberately so that people >> can

[GOAL] Re: One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

2015-06-02 Thread Heather Morrison
On 2015-06-01, at 4:10 PM, Michael Eisen mailto:mbei...@gmail.com>> wrote: Nobody is insisting on perfect solutions - none of the current solutions are even close to perfect - but what Heather was proposing was a change in goals. There is nothing to be gained - and a lot to lose - by redefinin

[GOAL] Re: One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

2015-06-01 Thread Heather Morrison
On 2015-06-01, at 4:17 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > Please accept that posting on the web, with whatever good intentions but > without explicit licence, gives no rights to any potential user. Good grief, no, I accept no such thing. You sound like a copyright maximalist here, PMR. We ne

[GOAL] Re: One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

2015-06-01 Thread Heather Morrison
On 2015-06-01, at 2:02 PM, wrote: When I want to drive on a public road, whether it is closed or temporarily closed makes no difference to me. It is not open. I can't use it. Embargo is antinomic to open. Comment: would you agree then that all of the journals that make back issues freely avai

[GOAL] Re: One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

2015-06-01 Thread Heather Morrison
Question and challenge Question: Didn't the UK recently change its legislation explicitly to allow for data and text mining? Challenge: My research blog and data verses are both fully open with no CC license at all. They are All Rights Reserved, and yet posted on the web, in the case of the da

[GOAL] Re: One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

2015-06-01 Thread Heather Morrison
irection, or a bad thing because it reifies delayed access. But calling what the provide "open access" serves only to confuse people, to weaken our objectives and give the still far more powerful forces who do not want open access a way to resist pressure for it. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5

[GOAL] Elsevier policy change: educational opportunity?

2015-06-01 Thread Heather Morrison
An idea to take or leave as you like: one way to look at the recent Elsevier self-archiving policy change is that this could actually work against the company in terms of attracting authors. If scholars are concerned about the embargoes, whether due to policy or missing out on the benefits of op

[GOAL] Re: One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

2015-06-01 Thread Heather Morrison
cheaper > journal publishing, for more liberal licensing, etc., etc. Denigrating them > by implication is quite ridiculous revisionism. (And for full disclosure, I > attended the 10th anniversary meeting in Budapest, where we were able to > celebrate a vibrant, international OA movem

[GOAL] DOAJ, Impact Factor, and APCs

2015-06-01 Thread Heather Morrison
far beyond inflationary levels. This warrants further investigation. For those seeking to support OA through APCs this has budgetary implications. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of O

[GOAL] One way to expand the OA movement: be more inclusive

2015-05-30 Thread Heather Morrison
r they did this), the thousands of journals providing free access (whether we think they are perfect in this or not), the thousands of repositories - that's a huge global movement, one that we can build upon to continue and grow the momentum to date. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Profe

[GOAL] Re: Unnecessary Services

2015-05-30 Thread Heather Morrison
Sent from my iPhone > On May 30, 2015, at 10:27 AM, "Michael Eisen" wrote: > > There is no evidence that post publication review can assure quality, I > agree. But there is a wealth of evidence that pre-publication review DOES NOT > assure quality, and it is absurd to spend $10b a year and d

[GOAL] Re: COAR-recting the record

2015-05-29 Thread Heather Morrison
h as per common citation practice, "as found in" for downstream work is appropriate. Perhaps we can build on examples like EHP to develop models for best practices in this area? Does anyone have other suggestions for how to resolve this particular issue? best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison

[GOAL] Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences: good model for noncommercial

2015-05-28 Thread Heather Morrison
other grey literature a repository is an institutional necessity) is likely to be supported. A repository full of CC-BY works could be sold off to pay down the latest deficit. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information St

[GOAL] Gold not green: Academy Publisher

2015-05-28 Thread Heather Morrison
: http://www.jcomputers.us/JCP_Copyright.pdf Many subscription-based journals and publishers are far more generous with author self-archiving rights. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa

[GOAL] Re: COAR-recting the record

2015-05-27 Thread Heather Morrison
, however I think Elsevier may be closer to the author perspective on this than either COAR or SPARC. best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Dove Medical Press: open access publisher or copyright maximalist?

2015-05-27 Thread Heather Morrison
ss of the licensing status of the original works. Sometimes scholars we need to critique works that the copyright holders actually don't want to share. Fair use / fair dealing needs to be part of the broader discussion on re-use in scholarly works. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant

[GOAL] Re: Positive example: Springer

2015-05-27 Thread Heather Morrison
The percentage of OA articles is useful, but no guarantee against double dipping. Subscription publishers set the price. If your normal price increase would be about 5% (well above inflation, but typical in scholarly publishing), but you want to look like you're not double dipping, you can simpl

[GOAL] Elsevier: still the world's largest scholarly publisher, still green - let's get archiving!

2015-05-26 Thread Heather Morrison
ccess. However, there are important differences. OA is about works that are free-of-charge. CC licenses can be used with works that are free-of-charge or works that are toll-access. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Stu

[GOAL] Re: Two-thirds of DOAJ journals do not have article processing charges

2015-05-25 Thread Heather Morrison
ries: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/10/critique-of-cc-by-series.html best, Heather Morrison On 2015-05-25, at 2:40 PM, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) wrote: > Heather, > > these are useful data, but in the interpretation of these we will have to > reckon with journal size distributions. What would be

[GOAL] Two-thirds of DOAJ journals do not have article processing charges

2015-05-25 Thread Heather Morrison
-of-doaj-journals-do-not-have-article-processing-charges/ best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Commons

[GOAL] correction re: How an apparent small price decrease may actually be a large price increase, or why it is important to understand currencies

2015-05-22 Thread Heather Morrison
looks like a 50 EUR or 2% price decrease may actually be a 580 EUR or 24% increase. Last year we did not capture pricing in all the currencies so cannot confirm. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies Unive

[GOAL] How an apparent small price decrease may actually be a large price increase, or why it is important to understand currencies

2015-05-22 Thread Heather Morrison
, then the equivalent in EUR today would be 2,370 EUR. What looks like a 50 EUR or 2% price decrease may actually be a 580 EUR or 24% increase. Last year we did not capture pricing in all the currencies so cannot confirm. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des s

[GOAL] mBio: good model for a noncommercial license

2015-05-21 Thread Heather Morrison
e corresponding author to obtain permission for noncommercial reuse of mBio content." from: http://mbio.asm.org/site/misc/authors.xhtml best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://w

[GOAL] Re: CC-BY journal draft policy: possibly of interest

2015-05-21 Thread Heather Morrison
ly irrelevant: anyone who obtains a work with a CC BY licence can > republish it with no need of a "separate, additional contractual arrangement" > with the copyright owner (unless one doesn't want to be bound by the > attribution condition). > > Marc Couture > >

[GOAL] CC-BY journal draft policy: possibly of interest

2015-05-21 Thread Heather Morrison
ith CC-BY licenses requiring full copyright transfer and limiting author rights. Details here: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2015/05/open-access-publishing-current-issues.html best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studi

[GOAL] In the E.U.? your USD OA APC costs 21% more today than a year ago

2015-05-20 Thread Heather Morrison
://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/20/in-the-e-u-your-usd-apcs-cost-21-more-than-a-year-ago/ Congratulations to the US - a strong currency tends to reflect a healthy economy. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies Universi

[GOAL] Re: OASPA Members Show Continued Growth in OA articles published with a CC BY license

2015-05-20 Thread Heather Morrison
re on IJPE: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2015/05/growth-in-cc-by-numbers-and-critique.html best, Heather Morrison On 2015-05-20, at 6:14 AM, Claire Redhead wrote: > The latest post on the OASPA blog shows the growth of CC BY articles in open > access-only journals using data supplied

[GOAL] Let's help the centuries-old journals convert to open access

2015-05-19 Thread Heather Morrison
Anthropological Science is posted here: http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/19/oa-apc-page-charges-and-dilemmas-for-long-standing-traditional-journals/ best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies Unive

[GOAL] Open access publishing: current issues in copyright and licensing

2015-05-19 Thread Heather Morrison
from the publisher's website: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2015/05/open-access-publishing-current-issues.html I won't post every instance, just wanted to highlight that there are issues like these and further research into practices and policy analysis would be helpful. best,

[GOAL] DOAJ has charges recent additions: preliminary analysis

2015-05-18 Thread Heather Morrison
$4,000 mark as compared with only 1 from our sample last year. For details and a link to the dataverse: http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/18/doaj-added-after-march-2014-has-charges-preliminary-analysis/ best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de

[GOAL] Libertas Academica: average APC price increases range from 18% to 56%

2015-05-15 Thread Heather Morrison
-academica-average-18-to-56-price-increase-2015-over-2014/ 5 of the 81 titles published by Libertas Academica are not found today. It is not clear how readers are expected to discover content published in these journals. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de

[GOAL] Title not found: room for improvement in maintaining access to content when journals cease

2015-05-15 Thread Heather Morrison
entire content of this blogpost on the Sustaining the Knowledge Commons blog: http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/15/title-not-found-room-for-improvement-in-maintaining-access-to-articles-when-journals-disappear/ best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de

[GOAL] Re: Fair Golf vs. Fools Gold

2015-05-14 Thread Heather Morrison
alysis > Department Head > Austrian Science Fund (FWF) > Sensengasse 1 > A-1090 Vienna > Tel: +43-1-5056740-8861 > Mobile: +43-664-5307368 > Email: falk.reckl...@fwf.ac.at > > Web: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en > Twitter: @FWFOpenAccess > ORCID: http://orcid.org/-0

[GOAL] $1, 300 per article or $25, 000 annual subsidy can generously support small scholar-led OA journal publishing

2015-05-14 Thread Heather Morrison
t per peer-reviewed article, with an annual budget of $2,500 for extra costs. Calculations here: http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/14/1300-per-article-or-25k-year-in-subsidy-can-generously-support-quality-scholar-led-oa-journal-publishing/ best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor

[GOAL] Re: How a flat APC with no price increase for 3 years can be a 6% - 77% price increase at the same time

2015-05-14 Thread Heather Morrison
reduce costs for authors. I am sure, for example, that most > authors would be happier to pay APCs that varied +/- 25% around $1350 than > they would a fixed $2000. > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Heather Morrison > wrote: > In this post Jihane Salhab & I

[GOAL] How a flat APC with no price increase for 3 years can be a 6% - 77% price increase at the same time

2015-05-13 Thread Heather Morrison
rket economy really work for social reality? Reflections on an interview with David Simon by Alexis Calvé-Genest. http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/13/market-economy-and-social-reality-a-pragmatic-view-from-a-well-known-author/ best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École

[GOAL] Re: Has the OA movement over-reacted to challenges on peer review?

2015-05-13 Thread Heather Morrison
Elliot, P. & Hepting, D. (eds.): Free Knowledge: Confronting the Commodification of Human Discovery. Regina: University of Regina Press. Free download available from here: http://www.uofrpress.ca/publications/Free-Knowledge Smith, R. (2006). The trouble with medical journals. US: Oxford Press.

[GOAL] Has the OA movement over-reacted to challenges on peer review?

2015-05-12 Thread Heather Morrison
other social scientists. The open versus private section may engage scholars from a variety of humanities and social sciences; there are interesting theoretical and empirical questions in relation to all of the open movements. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des scienc

[GOAL] Open access researchers: let's cooperate

2015-05-07 Thread Heather Morrison
fect may not be immediate). best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommon

[GOAL] Tech tip for journals contributing metadata to DOAJ; check your publication years in DOAJ

2015-05-06 Thread Heather Morrison
ikely to be monitored by OA journal publishers. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html Sustaining the Knowledge Co

[GOAL] Which subjects are most likely to charge APCs?

2015-05-05 Thread Heather Morrison
our open research approach. Remember that the majority of open access journals do not charge article processing fees (only 26% of the journals listed in DOAJ a year ago used this method). Our study of this method does not imply endorsement of APCs as a business model. best, -- Dr. Heather

[GOAL] Re: Is the GOAL of open access free re-use for promotional purposes?

2015-05-01 Thread Heather Morrison
On 2015-05-01, at 2:45 PM, Graham Triggs mailto:grahamtri...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Friday, 1 May 2015, Heather Morrison mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca>> wrote: Question: does the GOAL of open access include making works freely available for use in promotional material? I arg

[GOAL] Is the GOAL of open access free re-use for promotional purposes?

2015-05-01 Thread Heather Morrison
hat asks whether there are some re-use rights that most would agree to and others, like promotional use, that are problematic. best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa Desmarais 111-02 613-56

[GOAL] Elsevier (and other traditional publishers) and PLOS

2015-04-29 Thread Heather Morrison
Harnad has been right on this point for many, many years. I'm still signed on for the Elsevier boycott, in case anyone is wondering: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies

[GOAL] Re: A case for strong fair use / fair dealing with restrictive licenses

2015-04-29 Thread Heather Morrison
ith the CC-BY policy. If authors retain full copyright and are the sole Licensors, this does not address the potential for downstream enclosure of works licensed as CC-BY. The original publisher just becomes one of the downstream users that can decide to start selling access to works licen

[GOAL] Re: A case for strong fair use / fair dealing with restrictive licenses

2015-04-29 Thread Heather Morrison
d journals. To appreciate the danger of re-enclosure it is important to think about the scholarly publishing system as a whole rather than individual works. best, Heather Morrison Creative Commons and Open Access Critique series: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/10/critique-of-cc-by-serie

[GOAL] Re: A case for strong fair use / fair dealing with restrictive licenses

2015-04-28 Thread Heather Morrison
wrote: On Apr 26, 2015 2:08 PM, "Heather Morrison" mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca>> wrote: > > There are arguments against CC-BY as a default that apply across all > disciplines. The most important is the potential for downstream enclosure... > A broad-based CC-

[GOAL] Re: A case for strong fair use / fair dealing with restrictive licenses

2015-04-26 Thread Heather Morrison
o the recent review of the RCUK policy with respect to the CC-BY requirement: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/openaccess/2014review/ best, Heather Morrison On Apr 26, 2015, at 3:11 AM, "William Gunn" mailto:william.g...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks for sharing your well - thought p

[GOAL] A case for strong fair use / fair dealing with restrictive licenses

2015-04-25 Thread Heather Morrison
-fair-dealing.html Creative Commons and Open Access Critique series: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/10/critique-of-cc-by-series.html best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa http://www.sis.

[GOAL] Re: Blog post about the challenges of convincing researchers that sharing their data is a good thing

2015-04-20 Thread Heather Morrison
are being made that it is the First Nations groups that should be leading the research and consulting the researcher rather than the other way around. A one-size-fits-all approach to data policy development could end up blocking more university research than it releases. best, -- Dr. Heathe

[GOAL] Re: Sharing and reuse - not within a commercial economy, but within a sharing economy

2015-04-13 Thread Heather Morrison
l to circumvent digital locks, even if the locks are a barrier to legal use, or ever-expanding copyright terms) can result in losses for open access. best, Heather Morrison ___ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal

[GOAL] Re: CC-BY and open access question: who is the Licensor?

2015-04-13 Thread Heather Morrison
considerable good as a push-back against the automatic copyright introduced by Berne and still in effect, widespread use of the licenses might have the unfortunate effect of reinforcing the idea that everything we create has copyright attached. I am not convinced that any CC l

[GOAL] Re: CC-BY and open access question: who is the Licensor?

2015-04-13 Thread Heather Morrison
to claim any rights in an article - except the > right, given by the author under CC-BY, to reproduce it publicly. > > David > > > > > >> On 13 Apr 2015, at 14:00, Heather Morrison >> wrote: >> >> Thank you to Graham Triggs for clarif

[GOAL] Sharing and reuse - not within a commercial economy, but within a sharing economy

2015-04-13 Thread Heather Morrison
hey choose to share with sociological researchers should not be released under licenses granting blanket downstream commercial and re-use rights. The RCUK evidence is posted here: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/openaccess/2014review/ best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Profes

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